单词 | quinarianism |
释义 | > as lemmasquiˈnarianism quiˈnarianism n. Zoology (now historical) the quinary system of classification. ΚΠ 1850 T. H. Huxley in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 6 67 There is a great law hidden in the ‘Circular system’ if one could but get at it, perhaps in Quinarianism too. 1935 Amer. Lit. 7 268 Audubon counted among his friends the Englishman, William Swainson, who advocated Quinarianism, or the doctrine of the esoteric significance of the recurrence of the number five in nature. 1982 E. Mayr Growth of Biol. Thought i. 12 Macleay's and Swainson's quinarianism, for instance, which was totally eclipsed by the Origin of Species, represented a sincere endeavor to reconcile the seeming chaotic diversity of nature with the then prevailing conviction that there had to be some ‘higher’ order in nature. < as lemmas |
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